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The Queen's Stepwell That Was Buried for Seven Centuries

A queen built a palace that went down into the earth, and then the earth covered it for seven hundred years.

In Patan, in the north of Gujarat, there is a building that goes down instead of up.

It is called Rani ki Vav, the Queen's Stepwell. It is a palace sunk into the ground. And for about seven hundred years nobody could see it at all, because the earth had swallowed it.

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